“Some scientists for BP said this didn’t have nothing to do with the oil, that sometimes this is what happens to animals: they die for unexpected reasons. Sometimes a lot of them. Sometimes all at once... And when that scientist said that, I thought about humans. Because humans is animals.”

“Some scientists for BP said this didn’t have nothing to do with the oil, that sometimes this is what happens to animals: they die for unexpected reasons. Sometimes a lot of them. Sometimes all at once... And when that scientist said that, I thought about humans. Because humans is animals.”

— Jesmyn Ward